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Microsoft acquires Bonsai to help with its artificial intelligence push

42 points by benryon 8y ago

sidcool 8y ago
Microsoft has been on quite a shopping spree.
giancarlostoro 8y ago
I went and bought a Microsoft Surface Book 2 because I got sick of my 3 ~ year old laptop. I wanted specs close to my desktops so having a PCIE SSD is a must along with 16GB ram. I got the laptop and during setup Cortana started talking to me and normally I'd turn all that off but I thought screw it let me try this out. I setup my whole system with voice minus a few sections like selecting the WiFi network and obviously typing in my password. A few minutes after install Windows told me it signed me into my Skype in the background. So now if and when I do need to use Skype for a business call I don't even have to bother trying to log in. It doesn't try to force it to start so I'm happy. On top of all of this I have WSL available to me and can use my favorite unix tools when I need to. I gotta say I probably wont be bothering installing Linux at all. That aside I gotta say Cortana worked pretty darn good, can't say I've has those kinda awesome experiences with Siri or Google. Oh and for fun Cortana snuck some jokes into the setup process which were appreciated. Never do you normally get jokes from an OS during a fresh setup.
- EduardoBautista 8y ago
  Signing in automatically into Skype should not require AI. All it needs is an if statement really.
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    I know it doesn't but the fact I had to a lot less work for my OS setup is fantastic, oh and they pulled up my settings from Windows 8 from ages back and synced everything up to the Wallpaper. It's the little things that make it better.
- stnp 8y ago
  ~~Skype is peer to peer hosted and running it in the background may not be what you like (if you prefer not to host other people's conversations).~~
  - e40 8y ago
    My understanding is that it is no longer peer to peer: https://www.lifewire.com/skype-changes-from-p2p-3426522 https://www.lifewire.com/skype-changes-from-p2p-3426522
    - stnp 8y ago
      Thanks for the correction.
    - Rjevski 8y ago
      Which is really unfortunate because the P2P system was reliable provided your network was reliable. The “new and improved” system just randomly fails for me and I’ve stopped using Skype as a result. The shit clients they started releasing (obviously they had to make them Electron-based) didn’t help.

42 points by benryon 8y ago

Microsoft has been on quite a shopping spree.

I went and bought a Microsoft Surface Book 2 because I got sick of my 3 ~ year old laptop. I wanted specs close to my desktops so having a PCIE SSD is a must along with 16GB ram. I got the laptop and during setup Cortana started talking to me and normally I'd turn all that off but I thought screw it let me try this out. I setup my whole system with voice minus a few sections like selecting the WiFi network and obviously typing in my password. A few minutes after install Windows told me it signed me into my Skype in the background. So now if and when I do need to use Skype for a business call I don't even have to bother trying to log in. It doesn't try to force it to start so I'm happy. On top of all of this I have WSL available to me and can use my favorite unix tools when I need to. I gotta say I probably wont be bothering installing Linux at all. That aside I gotta say Cortana worked pretty darn good, can't say I've has those kinda awesome experiences with Siri or Google. Oh and for fun Cortana snuck some jokes into the setup process which were appreciated. Never do you normally get jokes from an OS during a fresh setup.

EduardoBautista 8y ago
Signing in automatically into Skype should not require AI. All it needs is an if statement really.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I know it doesn't but the fact I had to a lot less work for my OS setup is fantastic, oh and they pulled up my settings from Windows 8 from ages back and synced everything up to the Wallpaper. It's the little things that make it better.
stnp 8y ago
~~Skype is peer to peer hosted and running it in the background may not be what you like (if you prefer not to host other people's conversations).~~
- e40 8y ago
  My understanding is that it is no longer peer to peer: https://www.lifewire.com/skype-changes-from-p2p-3426522 https://www.lifewire.com/skype-changes-from-p2p-3426522
  - stnp 8y ago
    Thanks for the correction.
  - Rjevski 8y ago
    Which is really unfortunate because the P2P system was reliable provided your network was reliable. The “new and improved” system just randomly fails for me and I’ve stopped using Skype as a result. The shit clients they started releasing (obviously they had to make them Electron-based) didn’t help.